Charles Handy Quotes

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

Home is a child's first and most important classroom.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

We are our children's first teachers.

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.

How vital are mother’s influence and teaching in the home-and how apparent when neglected!

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

I think day care is terrific. Kids get to be around other kids, and they're playing, and they're teaching each other. When I was in college, my summer job was being a preschool teacher. I loved it, and after that experience, I said I can't wait to put my kid in day care because I could see how much they loved it.

When my kids started preschool, the teachers had to take away all the fake bananas because all the boys would pick them up and pretend that they were guns. Boys find sticks to play swords and anything that looks like a gun to shoot. It's just inside of them. It's who they are.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents been driving themselves to distraction by taking too seriously the idea that 'as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.'

Give me a child for the first 7 years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.

Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity's faith later.

I believe we are more a product of our homes than of any other single influence.

I think children learn through their parents.

As a child, you are influenced by your parents' actions.

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two sexes should be united, both as teachers and pupils, in the same institution seems very desirable, but rarely in early life by a method that removes them from parental watch and care, and the protecting influences of a home.